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** Slides available online [http://amoe.ba/presentations/hacktivism here] | ** Slides available online [http://amoe.ba/presentations/hacktivism here] | ||
*6 pm: '''Principles of Low Power Design''', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power. | *6 pm: '''Principles of Low Power Design''', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power. | ||
*7 pm: | *7 pm: '''Improving the Scientific Process through Software''', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't. | ||
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk | *8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk | ||
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** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py | ** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py | ||
** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it! | ** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it! | ||
*6 - end: | *6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend. | ||
'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events''' | '''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events''' | ||
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== RECAP == | == RECAP == | ||
http://recapthelaw.org/ | http://recapthelaw.org/ | ||
Ping demonstrates PACER, the US federal court's paywall for public-domain legal documents, and how it charges $0.10 per "page" for everything (including search results!). The RECAP browser extension uploads PACER results to the Internet Archive so that others will not have to pay the fees. If you are about to pay for a document which someone else has already uploaded, it allows you to retrieve it from archive.org instead. There are 854,711 items in the archive.org RECAP collection so far. | Ping demonstrates PACER, the US federal court's paywall for public-domain legal documents, and how it charges $0.10 per "page" for everything (including search results!). The RECAP browser extension uploads PACER results to the Internet Archive so that others will not have to pay the fees. If you are about to pay for a document which someone else has already uploaded, it allows you to retrieve it from archive.org instead. There are 854,711 items in the archive.org RECAP collection so far. | ||
The RECAP browser extension for Firefox is at: http://github.com/citp/recap | The RECAP browser extension for Firefox is at: http://github.com/citp/recap | ||
The hackathon project was to develop RECAP for Chrome: http://github.com/zestyping/recap-chrome | The hackathon project was to develop RECAP for Chrome: http://github.com/zestyping/recap-chrome | ||
Currently, RECAP for Chrome checks the Internet Archive to see which documents are available, and adds links to the page so you can get the documents for free instead of paying to download them from PACER. It doesn't upload documents to the Internet Archive yet, though -- that part still needs to be done. | Currently, RECAP for Chrome checks the Internet Archive to see which documents are available, and adds links to the page so you can get the documents for free instead of paying to download them from PACER. It doesn't upload documents to the Internet Archive yet, though -- that part still needs to be done. | ||
== Fork the law == | == Fork the law == | ||
* Christie introduces in-progress new website for disucssing and editing laws. | * Christie introduces in-progress new website for disucssing and editing laws. |